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Old 3rd Nov 2013, 17:21
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Thanks for searching out those photos of EI-BFH from "Flying in Ireland". I didn't want to scan the photos and breach copyright. As for the Papal Crest on -BFH from the 1980 photo, yes, I am pretty sure it's there. The Aer Lingus badge on the small forward rear door and the additional "Irish Helicopters" titles over the rear sliding door are all left-overs from the Papal flight operations of the previous September. If you look closely at the engine panel just forward of the rear air intake, a dark marking can be seen. This is Pope John Paul II's Papal crest.

Here are a few more photos of the IHL fleet that I think haven't been posted before.





Two shots of EI-BLD at the Castletownbere pad in Cork in 1990.



I think this is the first photo here of EI-CAF. All three photos come from the collection of Bram Risseeuw (Irishavsites website).



EI-BLD in a the later paint scheme.



EI-BHO in 1985.



A nice shot of EI-BLY from the Ken Meegan collection. The "Roinn na Mara" titles and winch indicate that -BLY is serving as the interim SAR S-61N for the Department of the Marine prior to the arrival of EI-BHO.



EI-BHO at Shannon on the 15th of June 1992. (Markus Herzig Collection)

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